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Research brief: Primary care strategies to improve health of chronic disease patients
Improving primary care for patients with chronic illness is critical to improving healthcare quality, value and patient experience. Primary care...
A web-based program is as effective as group counseling for patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
Credit: Journal of Hepatology Amsterdam, October 2, 2018 - Lifestyle changes are the cornerstone of preventing and treating non-alcoholic fatty...
Imaging the zebrafish, one cell at a time
Credit: Jan Huisken, Morgridge Institute for Research A new imaging project at the Morgridge Institute for Research might be the...
Free thinking: researchers identify origins of free will in the brain
Long the domain of philosophy and religion, free will has also been defined by scientists as a combination of two...
In tiny worms, researchers find spiking neurons — and clues about brain computation
Credit: Qiang Liu/The Rockefeller University Contrary to popular belief, the brain is not a computer. However brains do, in their...
Hopkins researchers use endoscope to deliver gene therapy in animal study
Credit: Johns Hopkins Medicine Fixing or replacing faulty genes has emerged as a key to unlocking cures for numerous devastating...
New predictive models may transform personalized treatment of infectious disease
Credit: Penn State A new National Institutes of Health (NIH) High-Risk, High-Reward grant will allow Penn State's Steven Schiff and...
Gordon receives $2.3 Million NIH Director’s New Innovator Award
Reyna Gordon, PhD, assistant professor of Otolaryngology and director of the Music Cognition Lab in the Department of Otolaryngology at...
New technique uses umbilical cord stem cells for early repair of cleft palate
October 2, 2018 - A technique using umbilical cord blood stem cells could be a promising new approach for repair...
The immune system of the alpaca reveals a potential treatment for cancer
Credit: Salvador Guardiola and Monica Varese, IRB Barcelona The natural world often provides the answer to unsolved medical problems. On...
UCI researcher awarded NIH Director’s New Innovator Award
Irvine, CA - October 2, 2018 - University of California, Irvine Neuroscientist Medha Pathak, PhD, an assistant professor of Physiology...
Northwestern to lead national team studying aging and neurodegenerative disease
Credit: Northwestern University Northwestern University has received a $12.6 million grant from the National Institute on Aging at the National...
What kind of sex do German men have at 45?
12,354 men at the age of 45 spoke about sex for a study by the Technical University of Munich (TUM)....
Take my hand and ride with me — Over the genome
The development of an adult organism starts with a fertilized egg that differentiates into hundreds of specialized cell types contained...
Biofilm reactor promises to cut production costs on vitamin K
Credit: Ehsan Mahdinia/Penn State In an innovative study that promises to reduce production costs for the most potent form of...
Novel mechanism for generating our skeleton
Credit: Kanazawa University There are more than 200 bones in the human body. Bone is formed during embryonic and postnatal...
UVA’s Jonathan Kipnis receives prestigious NIH Director’s Pioneer Award
Credit: Dan Addison | University of Virginia Communications A University of Virginia School of Medicine neuroscientist who is transforming our...
Salk’s Janelle Ayres receives NIH Pioneer Award for novel approaches to infectious disease
Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA--(October 2, 2018) Associate Professor Janelle Ayres has been awarded a 2018 NIH Director's Pioneer Award...
Professor, MSD high school senior collaborate on homicide trends
Credit: Florida Atlantic University The vast majority of homicides in the United States are attributable to firearms. The rate of...
Pitt researchers receive prestigious NIH Director’s Awards
Credit: University of Pittsburgh PITTSBURGH, Oct. 2, 2018 - Three University of Pittsburgh faculty members have been chosen to receive...
